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competition. Also winning hon– ors on the state level were Rachelle Graham of Little Rock and Ginger Richardson of Enterprise, first place, Opemng and Closing; Christy Russell of Hillsboro, second, Health Occu- pations Professional Portfolio; Megan McCorkle of Umon, Meridith Carney of Quitman, Candy Chesney of Little Rock, Bridget Jordan of Noxapater

Shay Moncrief, Bnan Henry Sib– ley. Mary T. Vega and Christo– pher Scott Walker, all of New– ton. Bradley L. Cook and Jessi– ca Le1gh Sheehan, both of Little Rock, Anya Grace Dickerson, Sharon E Griffin and Kristin Nicole Taylor, all of Conehatta; Shelly Ferguson, Hickory; Craig R. Martm and Roxana Marie Rogers, both of Lake; Ashley L. Nicholson, Chunky. • Several members of the Col– lege's Theta Chi chapter of Phi Beta Lambda received honors at national and state competi– tion. On the national level, Theta Chi was one of two Mis– sissippi chapters selected to receive the prestigious Gold Seal award and co-adviser Brenda Johnson of Philadel– phia was named the state PBL association's Adviser of the Year. In state competition, Theta Chi won top honors in the Local Busmess Report and placed third on fund ra1sing for the March of D1mes. The ECCC chapter was also recog– nized as one of three Gold Seal chapters in Mississippi and was recognized as a Foun– dation member. Individual awards were presented to Jef– fery Davis of Louisville, first place, American Enterprise Project, and second, Communi– ty Service Project; Ken Web– ster of Philadelphia, first. Human Resource Manage– ment; Nolan Burchfield of Lobutcha, first, Telecommuni– cations; Brad Walton of Decatur and Chris Rush of Union, second, Web page Design; (Rush also placed sec– ond in Visual Basic); Joseph Lathem of Sebastopol, second, Information Management; Ken Triplett of Louisville, third, Com– puter Concepts; Triplett and Burchfield, third, Network Design. Webster and Rori Foley of Newton, third, Emerg– ing Bus1ness Issues; and Fran Warmack of Louisville, third, Commumty Service ProJeCt.

Memorial Library. The special area contains various items from the past and present donated by alumni and friends of the College. • Members of the 2005 Home– commg Court included Queen Sherrell Brown of Forest, Maid of Honqr Joy Cavenaugh of Chunky, sophomore maids Clancy Cleveland of Union, Abby Miller of Madisori and Alli– son McDaniel of Philadelphia; and freshman maids Kelsi Ables of Newton, Casey Coop– er of Forest, Laura Beth Wray of Louisville and Kim Cleveland of Union. • Sophomore engineering major Jaimee Jones of Louisville was selected a recipi– ent of the 2005 Phi Theta Kappa Leaders of Promise Scholarship. Jones, a Nanih Waiya High School graduate, was among 30 community and junior college students from the across the nation to r~ceive the $1,000 award to further her education. • Soccer players who received post-season honors in 2005 Included Maggie McDill, a product of Newton County High School, and Mitch Myers of Mclaurin, who were named first team All-State. • Numerous members of the Warrior football team received honors following the 2005 cam– paign. Honorees included linebacker Paul Tolbert, a prod– uct of Clinch County (Ga.) High School, defensive back Jarius Neal of Pickens County (Ala.) HS and defensive end Greg Hathorn of Louisville, All– Region 23 and first team All– State; and center Javares Dob– bms and nose guard George Maddox, both products of Tuscaloosa County (Ala.) High School, who were named sec– ond team All-State. Neal, Hawthorn, and Maddox also joined wide receiver Chris Lark

don Harris, both of Forest; Krystle Hunter, Louisville; and KyleGordon, Morton. Wanda Hurley, who was selected a Sam Walton Fellow, serves as

adviser.

• Warrior golfer Arick Ellis of Forest was named to the All- and Dana Wilcher of Walnut Region 23, Division 111 Team fol- Grove, third, Chapter Business lowing competition at the Procedures; Coty Stokes of MACJC State Championship Nanih Waiya, first, Cabinetmak- held at the Kirkwood National ing; Ginger Vance of Decatur, Golf Course in Holly Springs. Kellie Jo McGee of Hickory, . The Leake Academy product and Amy Dolan and Jana also qualified to compete in the Smith, both of Union, first place, NJCM Division Ill Men's Golf Opening and Closing; Sylvia Championship held at the Majure of Philadelphia, second, Chautauqua (New York) Golf Health Occupations Profession- Club, where his 318 total tied al Portfolio; Amy McMillan of him for 61st place in the 105- Forest, second, Practical Nurs- man field. ing; Tammy Baldwin of Forest, • ECCC students named to the first, Nurse Assisting; Betty 2005 Hall of Fame were Kristin Belvin of Decatur, second. Job Chaney of Little Rock, Ashley Skills Demonstration B; Bran- Clark of Sturgis, Amy Ealy of don Lang of Edinburg, second, Forest, Lee Anne Rawson of Industrial Motor Control; John Carthage, Brian Sibley of New- Creekmore of Noxapater. first, ton and Marley Smith of Union. CNC Milling; Lucas Little of • Five ECCC student-athletes Hickory, second, Precis,ion were named National Junior Machining Technology; Saman- College Athletic Association tha Partridge of Bailey, first, (NJCM) Academic AII-Ameri- Related Technical Math; Kizzy cans for 2004-05. Those select- Miller of Decatur, second, Pre- ad on the Distinguished List, School Teaching Assistant; which includes students with a Jason Blair of Philadelphia, 3.8 grade point average or second, Collision Repair Tech- above, included softbaiVbasket- nology; Nathan Cumberland of ball player Kristin Chaney of Newton, second, Health Occu- Newton County, softball player pations Professional Portfolio; Marley Smith of Union, and ten- Crystal Hughes of Lena, third, nis players Valerie Gibbs of Extemporaneous Speaking; Newton and Kyle Gordon of Tywon Davis of Philadelphia, Morton. Tennis player Roberto third, Major Appliance Technolo- Orellana of Forest was named gy; and Randy Sanders of on the Academic list, which Carthage, third, Heating, Ventl- includes students with at least a lation and Air Conditioning. All 3.6 grade point average. first-place winners advanced to • ECCC students who were the national competition. members of Theta Xi Chapter • ECCC's fast-pitch softball of Phi Theta Kappa, the intema- team experienced a successful tiona! honor society for two-year 2005 campaign, finishing with a colleges, received honors at record 34 wins and just five international and regional com- !?sses. !h~ ~ady Warriors won WINSTON COUNTY JOURNAL

of Pickens County (Ala.) HS and defensive back Marcus

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